Why I Will Hug My Kids a Little Longer Tonight

In the car the other day I heard the the Pulitzer Prizes for 2007 were announced, and I’d been meaning to look at the photo(s) that won this year.  Renee C. Byer won the prize for Feature Photography for her series documenting a single mother and her son has he loses his battle with cancer.  For all the technical stuff you can read about photography, it is images like these that remind you there is a whole lot more to it than lighting modifiers and exposure settings.

The images hit close to home - we have family who lost their 8 year old to cancer a couple years back.  They took him to the doctor one day since he was looking a little jaundice, less than half a year later he was gone.  An an instant he was gone.

Thomas Hawk pointed it out best:

 Please forgive the off topic direction of this post, but for those of us with healthy children I think it’s important that every single day we recognize how truly truly fortunate and blessed that we are as parents.  The luxury to spend time… with our kids is a treasure indeed and I think it’s important that we always remember this.  Not everyone is always this lucky.

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